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Aws, Officers >'«' Members 



Hibernian Society 



RELIEF OF EMIGRANTS FROM IRELAND, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

Organized March Twenty-second, 1790. j 

Incorporated April Twenty-seventh, 1792. / 



PHILADELPHIA: 
F. McManus, Jr. 8: Company, Printers, 29 North Sixth Street. 

1887. 



OFFICE R/S 



THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETY 






Preside 
rOHN FIELD. 



'ice- 
NICHJDLAS 



Pre! 



ident : 
GRIFFIN. 



Secretary : 
TH/DMAS D./FEMiUSON, 

140 Walhut Street. 
Treakurer !«^ 
PHILIPf BAR] 
Counsellors : 
ILLIiyVI GORM. 
[ENRV PHILLIES COLEMAN. 

Physicians 
JOSEPH ]«ARTIN/ M. D. 
fiCHAE 



Ct^-rr-iat^ 



O'HABI 
FinancA Commit 
COL. B./K. JAM 



ee : 

SON, 
WILLIAM BRICIE, 
DANIHL DONOVAN. 



D. 



Execmtive Committee : 
HON. WILLIAM McALEER, 
EDWARD J. HERATY, 
PHILIP J. WALSH. 



Act of Incorporation. 



ACT OF INCORPORATION. 



To ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, THE COMMON- 
WEALTH OF P ENNSYLVANIA SENDS GREETING I 

Whereas, the Honorable Thomas McKean, LL. D., 
Chief Justice of the Commonwealth aforesaid, Brigadier- 
General Walter Stewart, Edward Fox, Edward Carroll, 
Patrick Ferrall, Paul Cox, James McCrea, James Barclay, 
David Lapsley, Matthew Carey,|joseph Brown, Henry 
Toland, James Boylan, John Leamy, Archibald Bingham, 
John McLaughlin, William Hayes, James Alder, George 
Baker, William Delany, Alexander Henry, Patrick 
Moore, John Dunkin, Peter Benson, Richard Moore, 
John McClelland, John McCree, Andrew Porter, Samuel 
Bayard, Sharp Delany, j James Crawford, John Brown, 
Daniel Baldwin, William Matthews, Michael Morgan 
O'Brien, Ohver Pollock, John Lynch, John H. Huston, 
Thomas Lea, John Maxwell Nesbitt,| George Hughes, 
Jasper Moylan, George Meade, John Connelly, Samuel 
Kingsley, John Jones, M. Edmond Mullery, James 
Gallagher, James McClure, James Campbell, | Robert 
McCleay, John Taggert, Roger Kean, Alexander Cain, 
Robert Rainey, Hugh Holmes, Charles Heatly, David 
McCormick, and John Graham, citizens of this Common 5^' 
wealth, in conjunction with others, have formed themselves 
into a charitable association, under the name of " The 
Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants 



FROM Ireland," with a laudable view and intent, as 
well by voluntary subscriptions and stated contributions, 
as by donations, which may in future be made to the said 
association, to aid and assist poor and oppressed persons 
emigrating from Ireland into this State. 

And whereas, the members of the said association, 
in order to perpetuate the benefits to be derived from 
their institution, are desirous that their said Society may 
be incorporated, and by law enabled, as a body politic 
and corporate, to receive and hold such subscriptions, 
contributions, donations and bequests, as have been, or 
that hereafter may be made to the said society, and vested 
with such powers and privileges, as will enable the said 
society to carry into effect the benevolent purposes of 
their institution. 

And whereas, it is highly proper to promote the de- 
signs of the said society, inasmuch as they may greatly 
contribute to the strength and prosperity of this State, and 
of the United States, by encouraging emigrations from 
Ireland. 

Therefore know ye. That the said Thomas 
McKean, Walter Stewart, Edward Fox, Edward Carroll, 
Patrick Ferrall, Paul Cox, James McCrea, James Barclay, 
David Lapsley, Matthew Carey, Joseph Brown, Henry 
Toland, James Boylan, John Leamy, Archibald Bingham 
John McLaughlin, William Hayes, James Alder, George 
Baker, William Delany, Alexander Henry, Patrick 
Moore, John Dunkin, Peter Benson, Richard Moore, 
John McClelland, John McCree, Andrew Porter, Samuel 
Bayard, Sharp Delany, James Crawford, John Brown, 
Daniel Baldwin, William Matthews, Michael Morgan 



O'Brien, Oliver Pollock, John Lynch, John H, Huston, 
Thomas Lea, John Maxwell Nesbitt, George Hughes, 
Jasper Moylan, George Meade, John Connelly, Samuel 
Kingsley, John Jones, M. Edmund Mullery, James 
Gallagher, James McClure, James Campbell, Robert 
McCleay, John Taggert, Roger Kean, Alexander Cain, 
Robert Rainey, Hugh Holmes, Charles Heatly, David 
McCormick, and John Graham, and such other persons 
as shall hereafter be admitted, or become members of the 
said society, and their successors, shall be, and they are 
hereby, and by force and virtue of the Act of the General 
Assembly of the said Commonwealth, entitled " An Act 
to confer on certain associations of the citizens of this 
Commonwealth, the powers and immunities of corpor- 
ations or bodies politic in law," passed at the city of 
Philadelphia, the sixth day of April, in the year of our 
Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, made, 
declared and constituted to be a corporation and body 
politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, by 
the name, style and title of " The Hibernian Society 
FOR the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland." 
And the said corporation and their successors, by the 
name, style and title aforesaid, shall forever hereafter be 
persons able and capable in law, as well to take, receive, 
and hold all, and all manner of lands, tenements, rents, 
annuities, franchises, and other hereditaments, which at 
any time or times heretofore have been granted, devised 
or otherwise conveyed to the said society, or to any other 
person or persons to their use or in trust for them ; and 
also, that the said corporation and their successors, at all 
times hereafter, shall be capable and able to purchase. 



have, receive, take, hold, and enjoy in fee simple or of 
lesser estate or estates, any lands, tenements, rents, an- 
nuities, liberties, franchises, and other hereditaments, by 
the gift, grant, sale, release, confirmation or devise of any 
person or persons, whatsoever, capable and able to make 
the same ; together with such annual and other stipends, 
contributions and fines, as they may, by their by laws im- 
pose upon the members of their society ; provided that 
the clear yearly value, interest or income of the lands, 
tenements, rents, annuities or other hereditaments and 
real estate of the said corporation, and the interest of 
money lent by the said corporation, shall not exceed the 
sum of five hundred pounds, Pennsylvania currency, ex- 
clusive of the annual stipends of the members, and such 
fines as may from time to time, be imposed upon the 
members of the said society by the by-laws thereof. 

And the said corporation and their successors shall 
have full power and authority, to make, have, and use, 
one common seal, with such device and inscription as 
they shall think fit and proper, and the same to alter, 
break and renew at their pleasure. 

And for the well governing and ordering of the affairs 
of the said society, the members thereof shall meet to- 
gether on the first Monday in June next, and such other 
days in the present year, and at such other times in each 
succeeding year thereafter, as the said society shall by 
their by-laws from time to time appoint in some conven- 
ient place ; notice being given in at least two of the daily 
papers published in the City of Philadelphia, at least five 
days before the time of such meetings ; and the said 
society or as many of the members thereof, as are so met. 



shall have full power and authority from time to time, to 
make, constitute and establish such laws, statutes, orders, 
and constitutions, as shall appear to them, or a major part 
of them, so met, to be good and useful, according to the 
best of their judgment and discretion, for the good 
government, regulation and direction of the said society, 
and every member thereof, and for the appointing and 
regulating the election and nomination of a President, 
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and such and so 
many other officers as they shall think fit, and for the 
limiting and appointing, their trust and authority, and for 
admitting new members, and to do all things concerning 
the government, estate, goods, lands, revenues, as also of 
the business and affairs of said corporation, all which 
laws, statutes, orders and constitutions shall be binding on 
every member, and from time to time inviolably observed, 
according to the tenor and effect of them ; provided that 
they be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of this 
State or of the United States. 



I have perused and examined the preceding instru- 
ment, and hereby certify, that I am of opinion, that the 
objects, articles and conditions therein set forth and con- 
tained, are lawful. 

JARED INGERSOLL, 
April nth, 1792, Attorney-General.- 



We, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Common- 
wealth of Pennsylvania, hereby certify, that at a supreme 
court held at Philadelphia for the said Commonwealth, 



on the thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, 
one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, an act or 
instrument of incorporation of the Hibernian Society for 
the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland, by the name and 
title of " The Hibernian Society for the Relief 
OF Emigrants from Ireland," signed by a number 
of persons, citizens of this Commonwealth, together with 
the opinion of Jared Ingersoll, Esquire, Attorney- General 
of the said Commonwealth, thereon, was exhibited to the 
said supreme court; who having perused and examined 
the same, concur with him in opinion, that the objects, 
articles and conditions therein set forth and contained are 
lawful. 

Thomas McKean, 
Edward Shippen, 
Jasper Yeates, 
William Bradford. 



Pennsylvania, ss : 

In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania, Thomas Mifflin, Governor of the said 
Commonwealth, to Matthew Irwin, Esquire, Master of the 
Rolls, in and for the said Commonwealth. 

Whereas, it has been duly certified, to me by Jared 
Ingersoll, Esquire, Attorney-General of the said Common- 
wealth, and by Thomas McKean, Esquire, Chief Justice, 
and Edward Shippen, Jasper Yeates, and William Brad- 
ford^ Esquires, Justices of the Supreme Court, of Penn- 
sylvania, that they have respectively perused and examined 
the act or instrument, for the incorporation of the 
Hibernian Society, hereunto annexed, and that they 



concur in opinion, that the objects, articles and conditions, 
therein set forth and contained, are lawful : Now know 
YOU, that in pursuance of the act of the General Assembly 
in such case made and provided, I have transmitted the 
said act or instrument of incorporation unto you, the said 
Matthew Irwin, Master of the rolls aforesaid, hereby 
requiring you to enroll the same at the expense of the 
applicants, to the intent that according to the objects, 
articles and conditions therein set forth and contained, 
the parties may become and be a corporation, or body 
politic in law and in fact, to have continuance by the 
name, style and title in the said instrument provided and 
declared. 

Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, 
at Philadelphia, this twenty-seventh day of April, in the 
year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and 
ninety-two, and of the Commonwealth the sixteenth. 

By the Governor, A. J. DALLAS, 

Secretary. 

Enrolled in the Rolls Office for the State of Penn- 
sylvania, in Law Book, No. 5, page 2, etc. 

Witness my hatid and seal of office, the fourth day of 
August, 1792. 

Matthew Irwin, M. R. 



AMENDMENT. 



In the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, for the 
County of Philadelphia. 

To the Honorable the Judges of the said Cotii't. 

The Petition of " The Hibernian Society for 
THE Relief of Emigrants from Ireland," respect- 
fully represent. 

That they are an association duly incorporated under the 
Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by the 
Governor of the said Commonwealth, on the twenty- 
seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and ninety-two (1792), for the purpose of 
aiding and assisting poor and oppressed persons emigrating 
from Ireland into this State, and are embraced within Cor- 
porations of the first class, specified in section second of 
an Act of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, 
entitled " An Act to provide for the incorporation and 
regulation of certain corporations," approved on the 
twenty-ninth day of April, A. D., 1 874. 

That in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act of the 
General Assembly they are desirous of improving, amending 
and altering the articles and conditionsof their said Charter, 
and at a meeting of the said Corporation duly convened, 
the following improvements, amendments and alterations 
of the said Charter, were duly adopted : to wit : " That 



the Charter of 'The Hibernian Society for the relief 
OF Emigrants from Ireland,' be altered and amended 
to authorize the society to hold real estate, the net yearly 
income thereof not to exceed twenty thousand dollars, 
and personal estate, the net yearly income thereof not to 
exceed thirty thousand dollars." 

The Hibernian Society for thf Relief of 
Emigrants from Ireland. 

NICHOLAS J. GRIFFIN, 

Secretary. 
WILLIAM BRICE, 
President. 



In the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, for the 
County of Philadelphia. 

In the matter of the amendment of the Charter of 
"The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emi- 
grants from Ireland." 

And now this twenty-sixth day of January, A. D., 1884, 
the foregoing amendment and alteration of the Charter of 
" The Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emi- 
grants from Ireland." having been duly presented to 
this Court, in order that the same might be deemed and 
taken to be a part of the Charter of the said Corporation, 
and it appearing that such amendments and alterations are 
lawful and beneficial, and do not conflict with the require- 
ments of the Act of the General Assembly of this 
Commonwealth entitled " An Act to provide for the 
incorporation and regulation of certain Corporations," 
approved the twenty-ninth day of April, 1874, nor with 



the Constitution of this CommonweaUh, it is hereby 
ordered and decreed, that notice thereof shall be given 
by publication in accordance with the Statute in such case 
made and provided. By the Court. 

JAMES PENN MacCAIN, 

Clerk. 

And now this seventeenth day of March, A. D., 1884, 
the foregoing amendments, alterations and improvements 
having been presented to this Court accompanied by due 
proof of publication of notice thereof, and no cause having 
been shown to the contrary, it is, on motion of William 
Gorman and Samuel L. Taylor, Esquires, ordered and 
decreed, that upon the recording of the same, the said 
amendments, alterations and improvements, shall be 
deemed and taken to be part of the Charter of the said 
Corporation. 

JAMES R. LUDLOW, 

P. J., C. P., No. 3. 



Reco7'ded in the office for Recording of 
Deeds, Etc., in and for the City and 
County of Philadelphia, in Charter 
Book No. 9, Page ^i, etc. 



Witness my hand and seal of office, this twelfth day of 
April, A. D., 1884. 

JOHN O'DONNEL, 

Recorder of Deeds. 



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